Melina Manon was a female telekinetic peculiar. She is one of three people who escaped the raid on Miss Thrush's loop. She was killed during the wights' escape in The Conference of the Birds.
Background[]
Melina's father was a banker, and while her mother was beautiful, she smelled strongly of onions, a genetic trait she could not find a cure for.
At age 7, Melina badly wanted an Arabian horse, but her parents couldn't afford one, so they bought her a donkey instead of a horse. She named it Habib, which means "beloved." When she was 13, she started realizing that she had telekinesis. She started off with small objects such as paper clips and coins, eventually moved on to anything in her house. However, she couldn't move Habib, as her ability didn't extend to living things. After she moved houses, she couldn't use her ability and thought she had lost it. However, once she got to know the house she had control over all the objects inside it.
When she was 16, she went to Miss Thrush's Loop. She did not leave the loop until the group of peculiars came to visit. Miss Thrush was grooming Melina to be second assistant to the ombudswoman at The Peculiar Archives. She has been studying for twenty-one years.
Hollow City[]
When the group started to follow one of of Miss Wren's pigeons, it led them to a tomb where Peter-and-Joel and Joel-and-Peter are hiding. The brothers led them to their old and raided loop. Jacob, Emma, and Horace explore their loop while the others wait outside.
The pigeon led them to a house where the brothers used to live and along the way they saw corpses of unfortunate peculiars. The pigeon Winnifred is in the attic where Melina is hiding. They are able to track it down but were soon ambushed by Melina.
Melina attacked the three of them but soon calmed down when Horace explained that he dreamed about her, thus proving they are peculiar and not wights. They negotiate that she will let them use her pigeon (who she nicknamed Winnie) to find Miss Wren but if she slows them down they will leave her. When they went back to the tomb right after being chased by a hollow, she was surprised seeing the Bone Brothers alive.
The hollows were still after the group when they met Sam and Esme. They all hid in the bathroom while Esme suggests to hide with her in the bathtub, but Bronwyn replied they wouldn't fit. An air raid started and Esme got scared, however Enoch cheered her up by letting her play with one of his clay dolls/soldiers. Soon the bathroom was destroyed and Melina was pulled by the Bone Brothers behind a wall of reinforced concrete, and she emerged with Winnie unscathed.
Later, when Caul (in the form of a bird, and at the time impersonating Miss Peregrine) murdered Winnie, she threatened to stomp in his head, and said, "If that's how your ymbryne conducts herself, then we're better off with the wights!"
Library of Souls[]
She appeared briefly along with The Bone Brothers having their souls drained. Jacob removes the tube connecting to her foot. She was later rescued once the peculiars came back from Abaton.
The Conference of the Birds[]
The captured wights who were being held in Devil's Acre escaped, killing the peculiar guarding them by unknown means. Enoch wonders who the peculiar was, hoping that it wasn't someone good, but Millard says he thinks it was Melina. Enoch says he rather liked her, despite thinking her a bit mad, to which Emma tells him to have some respect. Bronwyn then calls Melina a hero.
Description[]
Appearance[]
Jacob describes Melina as tomboyish, except for the black dress she wears, and has short hair and a muscular jaw. When she first appears in Hollow City, she has "the glassy look of someone who hadn't slept in days."
Peculiarity[]
Melina is a telekinetic, meaning she can move things with her mind. Her peculiarity requires hand gestures such as snapping her fingers. She is unable to move living things, only objects, and apparently needs to get to know a place before she can move the objects there.
Relationships[]
Winnifred[]
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Melina and Winnie are great friends, with Melina having fed Winnie when the bird came to the courtyard. Winnie answers Melina's whistle and sits on her shoulder. Caring deeply about the bird, Melina became "crazed with rage" when Winnie was murdered, even threatening to stomp bird-form Caul's head despite believing he was an ymbryne.